Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does

You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere

Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.